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Friday, May 19, 2017

Tales of Unrest

Not even a Joseph Conrad could have imagined the mayhem and misery that engulfed the island of Bougainville during its ten-year-long conflict from 1988 to 1998.

With all the current talk about reopening the Bougainville Copper mine at Panguna, this may be a good time to remember how it all started.

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